Exercise Training in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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Exercise training (ET) is highly beneficial in heart failure patients and has been suggested to confer significant symptomatic and functional improvements in patients with diastolic dysfunction. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the safety, feasibility of a structured ET program in symptomatic HCM patients.

Exercise will be performed under continuous telemetry monitoring and medical supervision. Each session will include 5-10 worm-up, 30 min of aerobic activity on treadmill or bicycle ergometer followed by 10-15 min of stretch and relaxation exercise. Blood pressure will be obtained before the onset and at the end of each session. Participants will be requested to rest and observed 15-30 min before going home. The exercise intensity will be monitored and adjusted, per protocol, according to RPE using the Borg scale.

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Experimental: Exercise Training

Exercise will be performed under continuous telemetry monitoring and medical supervision. Each session will include 5-10 worm-up, 30 min of aerobic activity on treadmill or bicycle ergometer followed by 10-15 min of stretch and relaxation exercise. Blood pressure will be obtained before the onset and at the end of each session. Participants will be requested to rest and observed 15-30 min before going home. The exercise intensity will be monitored and adjusted, per protocol, according to RPE using the Borg scale.

Exercise prescription will be based upon cardiopulmonary test done at baseline.

Intervention: Behavioral: Exercise Training

Active Comparator: Best Medical Care

Advanced HCM patients who are eligible to participate in the study but cannot do so for technical reasons will be invited to participate in the project as a control group.These subjects will continue their regular follow up in the Cardiomyopathy Clinic and their usual voluntary physical activity at home.

Intervention: Behavioral: Exercise Training

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